Asian movies are more violent but are they all with hand guns or Smurai swords and nonchoks? Do they depict flying kicks to people’s heads or the gore being blown out of the side of a victim’s head as in Hollywood?
So what is the reason that there are so many murders in the States and not in Asia? The availability of weapons in the marketplace?
So are you saying, not enough capital punishment?
Asian movies and TV programs have higher body counts and more graphic violence, with decapitations, torture and gunshot wounds pretty graphically depicted. There's a fair amount of stuff with English subs on Youtube. I've rented my share of these things. Bottom line is that they're not PC about violence in the way we are. The gore being blown out from various body parts was actually pioneered in Asian movies. Check out John Woo's pre-Hollywood output sometime. Hard Boiled and The Killer are somewhat entertaining, although as with most action movies, you do have to put your brain on hold.
So what is the reason that there are so many murders in the States and not in Asia? The availability of weapons in the marketplace?
Probably genetics and culture, with genetics playing a bigger part. Capital punishment influences the culture aspect, with Asian countries generally executing criminal homicide offenders at a higher rate, relative to the number of such crimes. However, the significant % of blacks stateside is probably the primary factor spiking the homicide rate. Blacks simply commit all classes of crimes, non-violent and violent alike, at a much higher rate than non-blacks. Stateside, blacks commit criminal homicide at a rate 10x of non-Hispanic whites.
An additional factor is the introduction of the welfare state. It used to be that everyone had to work in order to pay for food and shelter. Great Society programs gave a lot of borderline types the ability to get life's basic necessities without working. So they branched out into petty and major crime, abetted by revolving door justice introduced by liberals convinced that society was to blame for the unlawful acts committed by criminals.
So are you saying, not enough capital punishment?
On a per capita basis, executions are running 1/8 the rate of what they used to be, and the time from trial to execution is 7x-8x what it used to be. Per capita homicides are way up. While correlation doesn't prove causation, it certainly suggests it.